Microsoft Hires for Microsoft Studios: European Publishing, for AAA 3rd Party "Games as a Service"

Microsoft has been on a hiring spree lately, and the latest batch is about the newly formed Microsoft Studios: European Publishing, seeking a Creative Director, an Acquisition Producer and a Development Director.

The three career opportunity ads are actually quite rich in their descriptions of the purpose of the studio.

All MS is gonna do is Buy a few small studios and their I.P.s and then close those studios and make a few bucks off the i.P.s. through License fees by way of F2P Generic titles that will hit mobile phones, Xboxlive, or whatever.

I'm sorry but Microsoft has yet to really show real effort into making great first party games like Sony does.

this move the week of the XB1 launch further proves MS is not serious about first party games because if they were this move would of been done a year or two ago with Top notch first party games ready to launch Holiday 2013 and 2014.

Each time Microsoft decides to open up a new studio, it's always for some AAA title. But then they close it months or a few years later if they didn't get the sales they wanted. Don't they know you can't have a AAA game right off the bat?

What the hell are you spouting? Enough with the crap like you have insider information. Google those positions and you will find out that if the aim was to just by up exclusives they wouldn't need a Creative Director and a Development Director. Yes they will buy some ips but they will also buy up small studios into the MS family. That's a very sound business model. Google does it, yahoo does it, facebook does it and Sony does it too. Do your research before you say No Sony doesn't do it. Do you think every first party studio were employees of Sony before they just miraculously got studios to start making games? Yes Sony has some studios with long term employees but they also have studios that they bought when said studios were small and brought them into the family. Its called expanding a business! No matter how much you want MS to fail, they won't and the reason they won't is because of people like you who throw critical thinking out of the window when you don't get your wish.

Still, MS have yet to show that once they buy a small studio because of some IP they're working on they allow or foster creativity towards different tracks. If something works they only want more of the same, and if it doesn't the studio might get another chance, but more likely it'll get shut down.

@Godmars290 and because Microsoft is doing it it's evil? News flash; EVERY other entertainment company has been doing this the past 20+ years from games, TV, movies, music, etc etc. Fanboyism only hating because it's the other team is very tiring to read on an hourly basis...

lol are you kidding me If it was a game on another system that you wanted to play but its never coming to your system would you care if its first or third party the point being you wont get to play it period

It maybe cost effective in the long run to have your own studios produce exclusive ips but there is also a big risk in doing that.With buying third parties you can pick and choice and there is great chance of diversity but it does come at a price. I am more for in house studios but there is a risk doing so (if they fail they can fail hard and cost you a lot of money)

yeah a AAA exclusive title from black tusk and AAAA tilte from another studia ,quad-a it sonds very interesting i think this AAAA title can a openworld game because mooney involed in making it is very high and all are from 1st party studios.

yeah budy they are investing last year like it only there was an news about ms is hiring a big producer for a Quad-A title yeah a "AAAA" which will probably be the most expensive game from ms on xb1 and the last year only they revaled there are 6 new studios formed by ms for making exclusives on xb and one of which got most famous was balck tusk which is revealed that it is making AAA exclusive fro xb1 but which studio is making quad-a title is not announced but maye be these studios will reveal their games at lauch day as rumored best part is that the devs of rockstar canada,ea canada and bioware canada devs are involved in it ,these studios were shut down and ms hired them and biggest part these devs were considred the best devs of ea and bioware and rockstar canda which developed bully and desv of ea canada were involved in making of mass effect games and dragon age games ,i think we will get to know the games from these studios and we must not for get the 393 studios ,ms is realy changing their thinking.

If you notice Sony is in the whole, Why cause of bad management. It's less of a risk to pay for what you want. Microsoft has 66 billion dollars on deck. They can do what they want. Sony better hope that these burnout systems do hit the USA news or any news for that. Money is something very scarce in Sony's world. Enjoy your PS4s.

Man ms has been on a hiring spree....opening new studios around the globe.hiring high profile pr guys and also talented game producers and devs all to help with creating new content for their platforms, increasing the number of teams and talent in their older studios...343, rare and lionhead now have multiple teams working on multiple projects and the new rare seems so confident now, especially under the new direction of chris duncan and ken lobb.They have definitly got their creativity back(with rumors of a grand return of their popular ips in the works)...then you got ms partnering with japanese and western third party devs to create exclusive titles for the xbx one..man ms is going all out and what gets me most psyched is the fact that no one has any idea what ms is up to besides the major announcements for launch and next years line up(halo5,titanfall,quantum break,sunset overdrive,fable legends,kinect sports rivals etc).they have been quite silent...but its certain they have learnt alot from their mistakes with the 360.....cant wait

Yup, microsoft has certainly been slowly building their studios. Good thing they started doing this last generation so we can see the results this coming generation. I'm especially curious about black tusk and quantum break.

Im so glad..last i heard about blacktusk was in an interview with phil spencer.he stated that the devs had been working closely with ms research on something ground breaking regarding the kinect2 features in the game...quantum break on the other hand is going to be freaking amazing..

I think the struggles of the X1 will only help MS succeed in the end. Because the console isn't a launch success like the Xbox 360, this forces MS to thinik creatively about how to get back in the game. The same thing happened to Sony with the launch of their PS3. They started off weak, but came back strong with some great 1st party developers/games. A strong head-to-head competition is important for both Sony and MS, and above all- absolutely paramount for gamers.

yeah you are very right but for some sort ms have learned it before at the time of xb360 only ,yeah they were discriminated for having very less exclusives foe xb360 and they opened up 6 new big studios for first party exclusives in last 2 years ,and new we may can listen to them this xb1 launch event and very rumored AAA title from black tusk and a quad-a means AAAA title from an another studia and now comes an AAA f2p title i'am realy impressed by the work of ms,at least now their thinking is cahanging.

C'mon guys give 'em some slack, lets see what they can do with this. Remember it's not the quantity of people in the studio that makes a better game, I've played indies that prove this. Good luck MS, much luck to your endeavors, It'll make my future purchase of an XBOX ONE well worth the cost I'm sure.